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why i HATE Helldivers 2 - Terrible Game

2024-02-18 · 10 min

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  1. Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

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  2. I've been playing the brand new Helldivers

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  3. 2 for a while now, and there have been a

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  4. few problems such as the terrible server

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  5. connection and disconnection problems. It

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  6. seems like they were really struggling

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  7. with the amount of people playing the game

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  8. and the servers just couldn't really

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  9. handle it. So I've been trying to play the

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  10. game, but it's been kind of hard with the

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  11. constant disconnections and the servers

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  12. being full and having all kind of laggy

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  13. problems and stuff like that. But it's

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  14. been, you know, it's been an okay-ish

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  15. launch apart from the problems I just

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  16. mentioned. It has been kind of frustrating

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  17. and annoying that I had to pay all this

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  18. money to play this game, and I haven't

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  19. really had an amazing experience straight

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  20. off the bat so far. It's been very glitchy

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  21. and problematic, but when you get past

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  22. those glitchiness and problematic

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  23. problems, then the game is kind of fun,

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  24. but it is a bit tedious. So in this game,

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  25. the main gameplay loop of this game is

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  26. basically you launch down onto the planet

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  27. and then you head for an objective,

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  28. usually that's marked on the map, and then

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  29. you head there And then there's some kind

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  30. of very basic task you gotta do, like

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  31. disable a signal, collect information, or

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  32. just kill stuff. And then once you're

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  33. doing the little task at the destination

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  34. that you're sent to, you gotta fend off

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  35. against swarms of bugs and insects. And

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  36. then after you finish fighting them off,

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  37. you head back to the extraction point

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  38. where you've now got to wait for the

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  39. extraction vehicle or the extraction

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  40. spaceship to fly down and collect you.

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  41. Whilst fending off another massive swarm

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  42. of insects. So usually there's only 2

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  43. types of insects, you've got the small

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  44. ones and then the big ones, and then

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  45. there's other planets where instead of

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  46. fighting insects you fight against these

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  47. kind of robotic machine things which kind

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  48. of look like Terminator things from the

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  49. Terminator movie. Not very original, I

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  50. have to say. This game doesn't really have

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  51. any originality. It basically just rips

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  52. off Starship Troopers with the big bugs

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  53. and Terminator with the robot stuff.

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  54. There's something weird about this game in

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  55. the way it feels when you aim the weapons.

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  56. You get like a circle within a crosshair

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  57. and you kind of move the crosshair around

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  58. and then the circle has a slight delay.

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  59. It's not a massive delay, but it is very

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  60. noticeable and you can definitely feel

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  61. this sluggishness as the circle moves

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  62. around to catch up with the cursor.

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  63. There's like a half-second, split-second

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  64. delay and it feels really weird,

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  65. especially when you try to aim at the

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  66. enemies. There's like this weird

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  67. disconjointed feeling to the shooting.

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  68. Not to mention that you only get basically

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  69. 2 guns. You get the pistol sidearm and

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  70. then your main rifle And then you also get

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  71. like a special big machine gun, like a big

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  72. LMG that you can call down from the

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  73. extraction point. But that gun is very

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  74. annoying and takes a very long time to

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  75. reload. As you can see, I'm using it now.

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  76. And yeah, it does a lot of damage. It's

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  77. got a big magazine, but it takes freaking

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  78. ages to reload. It's a very frustrating

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  79. weapon to use, and it can be pretty

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  80. intense when you're trying to reload it

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  81. and there's a load of insects chasing you.

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  82. You're trying not to get killed as you

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  83. only have about 10 seconds until the

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  84. extraction flight vehicle comes down and

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  85. rescues you. I think one of the biggest

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  86. problems with this game and a missed

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  87. opportunity from the developers is not

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  88. making this game free-to-play. I think

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  89. they've really missed the mark by charging

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  90. too much money for this game. It's about

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  91. £35, so it's like $50. It's not super

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  92. expensive compared to most AAAs, but they

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  93. could have made this a free-to-play game

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  94. like Fortnite, or I don't know, any kind

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  95. of free-to-play model game that's

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  96. extremely successful still makes a lot of

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  97. money even though it's free-to-play

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  98. because they offer other things like skins

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  99. skins and customizable outfits

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  100. and armor sets and stuff like that.

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  101. There's loads of games that are

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  102. free-to-play— Outwatch, another game, for

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  103. example. I don't understand why they

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  104. couldn't have just made this game

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  105. free-to-play and just given you like a

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  106. bunch of items that you could buy for real

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  107. money. I don't really feel like this game

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  108. is really good enough to warrant the price

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  109. tag. It doesn't really feel like an

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  110. amazingly well-made game. It just seems

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  111. like something that's made kind of cheaply

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  112. and Not really much went into it. It's

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  113. just the same gameplay loop over and over

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  114. again. It's not like a massive high-budget

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  115. game. So I personally feel like they could

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  116. have made more money if they just made it

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  117. free to play or only $10, because then a

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  118. lot more people would have been willing to

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  119. give it a try. I personally won't really

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  120. be playing it anymore because I don't want

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  121. to actually spend all this money to buy

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  122. this game and own it because I don't see

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  123. myself playing it in the future. There's

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  124. much other interesting games such as

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  125. Palworld, Diablo 4 that I'm more

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  126. interested in playing and spending time on

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  127. than this game. This game's okay if you

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  128. want like a quick cheap laugh with your

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  129. friends, but if you don't have any friends

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  130. like me, then this game kind of falls flat

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  131. on its face and it's kind of boring to

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  132. play on your own. And I guess you could

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  133. just do quick matches with random

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  134. strangers, but that's not really that fun

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  135. either. It gets kind of boring, and then

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  136. at the end of the day, just feel like

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  137. you're doing the same thing over and over

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  138. again— launch into planets, kill a lot of

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  139. insects, complete the objective, get back

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  140. to extraction point, return to the

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  141. mothership, maybe fiddle around with your

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  142. outfit, upgrade some new things, buy some

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  143. new things from the shop, and then rinse

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  144. and repeat and do the same thing over and

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  145. over again. It's not exactly

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  146. groundbreaking gameplay, and for that

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  147. reason I have to give it a low score of

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  148. 6.2 out of 10.

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  149. Every bug left alive is a threat to the

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  150. success of Operation Valiant Enclosure.

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  151. Mag's empty.

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  152. Get them, get them!

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  153. Throwing grenade.

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  154. Last reload.

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  155. That's called

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  156. democracy.

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  157. Sending down equipment

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  158. Mag's empty.

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  159. Say hello to

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  160. democracy!

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